Prothesis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Linguistics The addition of a phoneme or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish espina, "thorn,” from Latin spina.
  • n. Eastern Orthodox Church The preparation of the bread and wine for the Eucharist.
  • n. Eastern Orthodox Church The table used for this preparation.
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  • n. The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in nother, from other (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera ("sphere").
  • n. a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
  • n. See Prosthesis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In the Gr. Ch.: The preparation and preliminary oblation of the eucharistic elements before the liturgy: more fully called the office of prothesis.
  • n. The table on which this preparation is made (the table or altar of prothesis). It answers to the Western credence-table.
  • n. The apartment or the part of the bema or sanctuary in which this table is situated and the office used (the chapel of prothesis). See bema and the cut there given.
  • n. In grammar, addition of one or more sounds or letters at the beginning of a word.
  • n. In surgery, prosthesis.
    • Word Usage
    "Luckett's prothesis is often a source of good humor – most often generated by Luckett himself."
    Antonym
    aphesis   
    Variant
    prosthesis   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    prosthesis   
     
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